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Your friendly neighborhood spider scientist!｜ADHD & autistic｜Cohost of the BBC Earth Podcast｜Designed Crash Course Zoology｜Find me across the web @ https://spiderdaynightlive.carrd.co/
Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.
Yes. A MILLION.
This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...
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“Bring Back the Pollinators Q&A: Planting for Pollinators!” A cluster of various wildflowers, with butterflies and native bees visiting them.
The first step to Bring Back the Pollinators is to plant pollinator-friendly plants! But how exactly do you pick the right plants? Join us to ask all your questions and get advice straight from our experts!
🗓️Mar 11 at 10am PT / 1pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Importantly they are planning to hire these people on 2 year contracts so what actually happened is they fired everyone so they could rehire them with worse working conditions and an easy revolving door with industry 🔭
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.
Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.
A tooth infection.
1/3
tucson.com/news/local/b...
NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI.
The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom.
san.com/cc/what-your...
Tick on a purple plant waves it's legs in the air to sense the chemicals from passing hosts, indicated by wafting multicolored scents drifting down towards the tick.
Wicked art by Kai Gietzen: Spying on the secret sensory world of ticks. Carola Städele, a self-proclaimed “tick magnet,” studies the arachnids’ sensory neurobiology—how these tiny parasites zero in on their next meal. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/neuros-ark/n... #sciart
Thank you all SO much for joining us for our ICEBREAKER Immigrant Justice marathon. You all raised $130,772.53 over for the WFM's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund in the last two days. We're just floored by the turn out and support. Again, thank you all so so much.
A flyer for Myriapod Meet-Up 2026. The flyer has a picture of a millipede on it. The millipede is tan and has a cone-shaped head.
Myriapod Meet Up 2026 will be on 1 April, 8AM - 5PM (EDT). This online event will include short talks, and a chance to share and discuss research about myriapods (and other multipedes, e.g. Onychophora). Anyone may participate in this free event (no need to give a talk).
Many plants sold at stores and nurseries, even native plants, are pre-treated with pesticides. Join us on this #BugBanterPodcast to find out how to get plants that are actually safe for wildlife!
Audio & transcript 📻 xerces.org/bug-banter/b...
Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gcz...
Yes. Taxonomy is very much in danger of dying out. Simply because other scientists don't understand its importance and there is very little money for doing this work. 1/n
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Dark, shallow underwater scene showing three Astraspis, yellow, finless, jawless fish with armored head swimming to the right, surrounded by some algae and rocks. 3D artwork.
Murky underwater scene with two Eriptychius, dark brownish, finless, jawless fish facing each other, half buried in the soft sediment, with rocks in the background. 3D artwork.
Top view of a shallow marine environment with Eriptychius and Astraspis, two different species of jawless fishes, loitering around the soft sediment and rocks. 3D artwork.
Look at my fesh
#Art #SciArt
World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.
World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.
They've been talking like that about trans people for awhile now.
1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:
Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.
Its a horrifying escalation.
I am already seeing "it's a distraction!" takes and please fucking kill me
My guess is that Israel will also start bombing Iranian hospitals and universities, "in self-defense".
Gaza was a blueprint.
Things are extremely bleak. Pointless wars being started by pathetic men who need to do this shit to feel powerful. I hope a better world is possible.
A crude MS paint sketch of Pombon from Pokemon Winds and Waves drawn with an extremely long body and many legs.
multiple friends have expressed to me how much they don't want pombon to become bipedal
so i propose to you: pombonbonbonbonbonbonbon
ICE has not left Minneapolis. Our neighbors are still being taken by masked secret police.
Prior authorizations are the devil's work and they keep finding new ways to make them terrible.
1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that under a new deal with Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, trans scouts will be forcibly outed and segregated from peers of their gender.
The policy is the latest cruel capitulation.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...
Breaking WaPo:
Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
Parkside Chats: 2025 Monarch Butterfly Population Count (February 25, 2026). Page 1 with Emma Pelton and Dena Spatz, plus some Q&A.
Parkside Chats: 2025 Monarch Butterfly Population Count (February 25, 2026). Page 2 with Dena Spatz, Stephanie Little, and Emma Pelton again, plus some more Q&A and a few links.
Notes from today's online presentation about the 2025 Western Monarch butterfly count. Hosted by @californiaparks.bsky.social and featuring Dena Spatz, Stephanie Little, and Emma Pelton of @xercessociety.bsky.social.
What we bug lovers can do in the Year of the Horse? To admire the humble camel cricket! Known as Zao Ma in Chinese, which means “kitchen horse”, it is the mount of the Kitchen God Zao Jun, and brings good fortune & indicates plenty of food on the plates.
lmao
The Trump admin is pushing to terminate rules that mandate basic rights & sanitary conditions for detained children.
Already, CBP is detaining kids in tents, airports & prison-like settings, according to lawyers
By @sandywestreporter.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.org kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
We're horse posting, post your horses
#art #sciart #gamedev #crab
Little brown salticid boy with bright green 1st leg pair, peering over the edge of a dry oak leaf with his little feets on the edge
Sneaking up on the edge of leaf to peer over it 👀
Habronattus notialis boys are silly little cats
#EmotionalSupportSpood
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...